-resentment of royal absolutism
-3rd estate resentment toward advantages of 1st and 2nd estates
-the rise of enlightenment ideas
-financial crisis and exacerbating burden of system of taxation
-famine--rise in prices of bread, especially
-1789: Tennis Court Oath--National Assembly came to power, drew up new constitution w/a Legislative Assembly; king eventually gave in and Assembly began reforming France
-Storming of the Bastille
-Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
-1792: Jacobins and sans-culottes replaced National Assembly w/National Convention (abolished monarchy)
-1793: execution of the king
-Reign of Terror: creation of Committee of Public Safety, Robespierre comes to power, 15,000 executed by guillotine
-Thermidorean Reaction: period after Robespierre's rule, governmental restructuring--Constitution of 1795; Directory was formed
-Napoleon Bonaparte comes to power--autocratic rule reestablished
-fuedalism was dead
-social order contractual relations were consolidated by Code Napoleon
-unified France and enhanced power of the national state
-tore down the ancient structure of Europe
-hastened the advent of nationalism
-inaugurated the era of modern, total warfare
3rd estate: this was a time of liberation and new equality never known before; new constitution and government enabled the members to put their ideas (and ideas from Enlightenment) into reality; form of republican democracy was their goal
French Revolutionary
Wars
-3rd estate resentment toward advantages of 1st and 2nd estates
-the rise of enlightenment ideas
-financial crisis and exacerbating burden of system of taxation
-famine--rise in prices of bread, especially
-Storming of the Bastille
-Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
-1792: Jacobins and sans-culottes replaced National Assembly w/National Convention (abolished monarchy)
-1793: execution of the king
-Reign of Terror: creation of Committee of Public Safety, Robespierre comes to power, 15,000 executed by guillotine
-Thermidorean Reaction: period after Robespierre's rule, governmental restructuring--Constitution of 1795; Directory was formed
-Napoleon Bonaparte comes to power--autocratic rule reestablished
-social order contractual relations were consolidated by Code Napoleon
-unified France and enhanced power of the national state
-tore down the ancient structure of Europe
-hastened the advent of nationalism
-inaugurated the era of modern, total warfare